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UNITED y STATES lPATENT OEEICE.

HOWARD BODEY, OF NORRISTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK, DRAFT, NOTE, ao.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,006, dated Tully 10, 1883.

Application tiled September :'56, y1832. (Specimens) Aor alteration of such checks, &c.; and the novelty consists inthe peculiarities of arrangement in the figures or other characters upon such check, as will bemore fully hereinafter set forth, and specifically pointedv out in the claim. To prevent such raising or altering of negotiable paper, various schemes and devices have been devised-as, for instance, the form shown in Patent No. 68,448, of 1867; but in that case each figure has to be punched out separately, and the entire series of figures may be'separated from the body of the check, leaving a negotiable body intact. l

In my invention the form of figures or other characters are printed upon either face ofthe check er other instrument in unitsfrom one to nine, inclusive, andin tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands in like manner, so arranged as to cover the maj or part of the face upon which they are printed.' l

Referring to the drawings which form a part of this specification, Figure lis a front and Fi g. 2 is a back view of a check illustrating the in-l vention. l

The letter A indicates the scale of figures, and B a key which denotes the number of iigures or combination of figures punched out.

"Ihe check being properly filled in other respects, and being for the amount of twentythree dollars, the combination 23 is punched out, and the ligure l in the key is also punched, to denote that but one punching had been made in the schedule. If the check was drawn for 'one hundred and twenty-three dollars, the combinations 100 7" and 23 7 would be punchedout, and the figure 2 in the key also punched, to denote that but two punchholes had been made, and in like manner one thousand two hundred and twenty-three would be designated by punching out 1,000, l 7 200, and 23?, and the gure 3 ofthe key punched, to denote that three punch-holes had been made. As shown, fractions of a dollar are not provided for 5 but it is obvious that the scheme would be equally efficient fand as easily manipulated with such provision made. 4 It willbe observed that by the combinations arranged as shown any amount less Vthan one hundred thousand may be punched out with three holes, while in the patent hereinbefore mentioned it would requireA the formation of ve holes-fan addition of time and trouble and study.

I attach importance to thekey, as it doubles the security against alteration-that is to say, the schedule of iigures protects the amount of the check, while the key protects the schedule itself.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim isc A bank-check or 'similar instrument having a schedule of figures in units and combinations, occupying the major part of either face thereof, and adapted to be punched to denote the commercial value thereof, and having a key adapted to be punched to denote the amount of defacenient to the schedule, as and for the purpose set forth.

HOWARD noDEY.`

W'itnesses:

THonAs J. BEWLEY, STEPHEN Usricn. 

